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As a resident of the Relay/St. Denis community in Halethorpe and a member of the Relay Improvement Association, I was interested to read your recent article about the CSX railroad and the destruction on Charles Village's 26th Street ("Deluge causes landslide in Charles Village, floods roadways across state," May 1). If the residents of 26th Street or the citizens of Baltimore expect anything from the CSX Corporation, they are wasting their time. We have been fighting this railroad for nearly 25 years while the Thomas Viaduct across the Patapsco River continues to deteriorate. After many letters and several meetings with representatives of the CSX Corporation over the...

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As a resident of the Relay/St. Denis community in Halethorpe and a member of the Relay Improvement Association, I was interested to read your recent article about the CSX railroad and the destruction on Charles Village's 26th Street ("Deluge causes...

School may be out for students, but it's definitely in for building crews as they near completion on the latest elementary school in the Howard County district — a $34 million, 10-acre, two-story facility in Elkridge that's scheduled to open in time for...

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A $14 million project to completely replace the aging bridge that carries Frederick Avenue over the Gwynns Falls and a CSX Corp. railway in Southwest Baltimore will close the bridge to through traffic for an entire year starting next week, Baltimore...

The Howard County Board of Education Thursday night unanimously approved acquiring an $8.2 million parcel of land in Hanover for a new elementary school.
By a vote of 6-0, with board member Sandra French absent from the vote, the board authorized central...

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A freight train smacked into a truck carrying garbage and careened off the tracks in Rosedale Tuesday afternoon, triggering an explosion felt throughout the region and sending up a plume of black smoke visible for miles.Authorities identified the driver...

A freight train smacked into a truck carrying garbage and careened off the tracks in Rosedale Tuesday afternoon, triggering an explosion felt throughout the region and sending up a plume of black smoke visible for miles.
Authorities identified the driver...

A column of smoke rose into the sky as firefighters raced to the scene of the train derailment. The earth heaved as an explosion rattled residents and pushed windowpanes from their frames. At least one tank car was on fire — no one was sure what else.
It...

As Rosedale residents and business owners began to clean up after the fiery train derailment, federal officials said Wednesday that a chemical, sodium chlorate, had likely exploded in one of the train cars.
Investigators with the National...

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It almost claimed Colleen Zaccagnino and...

With construction under way on a new middle school in Hanover's Oxford Square development, Howard County school officials already are planning to give the building a new neighbor: an elementary school.
In a report before the Board of Education at its...

A man was struck and killed by a CSX Corp. train in Lansdowne on Saturday morning, according to Baltimore County Police.
Officers were called to train tracks near the intersection of Lansdowne Road and Hammonds Ferry Road shortly after 8 a.m. and found...

A pedestrian was killed by a CSX Corp. train in Rosedale on Tuesday afternoon, in what local police believe to be the third suicide by train in Maryland in less than a month.
Baltimore County Police were dispatched to the 8800 block of Pulaski Highway...

City and state officials are re-evaluating their approach to a proposed railroad cargo facility in Southwest Baltimore, acknowledging that their initial response to community concerns fell flat.The public backlash stalled the CSX Corp. project, which is...

With a few legislative victories already in hand, Laurie Weishorn will sit down before the entire Baltimore delegation in Annapolis on Friday morning and ask them to go one step further and stop CSX Corp. from building a cargo transfer facility in her...

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After approving a design plan for an elementary school in the northeast region of Howard County, the Board of Education is moving forward with a site for the new school — just not the one previously discussed.The board unanimously selected a site along...

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